#transportplanning — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #transportplanning, aggregated by home.social.
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A quick look at the narrowed bike lanes on Elizabeth Street, Richmond.
The positives. The new smooth surface and removal of road humps from the bike lane are great. You can ride without giving attention to pavement obstacles.
However, the bike lane is now too narrow for social cycling and passing. This was considered to be a luxury item by the populist mayor and low on his hierarchy that puts car parking above.
I think social cycling is very important for normalising bicycle transport from an early age. The simple act of allowing a parent to cycle beside their child with a hand on their back goes a long way.
As a side note, this bike lane plus the buffer would be about the width of a stepped bike lane design from Copenhagen. They don't bother with buffer space there and let you use the whole width between the footpath and parking lane (example linked below). If such a design was made here, you'd keep parking and still allow social cycling.
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Long awaited statutory guidance? I know, let’s publish it on Maundy Thursday and not send the standard email notification that ensures people who need to know find out about it… thanks DfT, really appreciated!
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Four-way temporary traffic lights on main road into town not working, with traffic already in conflict just after 7 before it starts to build. Called the highways out of hour number. Now, guess who they think is responsible for hunting down the contractor to rectify it and why?
#Transport #TransportPlanning #LocalCouncil #LocalGovernment
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Four-way temporary traffic lights on main road into town not working, with traffic already in conflict just after 7 before it starts to build. Called the highways out of hour number. Now, guess who they think is responsible for hunting down the contractor to rectify it and why?
#Transport #TransportPlanning #LocalCouncil #LocalGovernment
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Four-way temporary traffic lights on main road into town not working, with traffic already in conflict just after 7 before it starts to build. Called the highways out of hour number. Now, guess who they think is responsible for hunting down the contractor to rectify it and why?
#Transport #TransportPlanning #LocalCouncil #LocalGovernment
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Four-way temporary traffic lights on main road into town not working, with traffic already in conflict just after 7 before it starts to build. Called the highways out of hour number. Now, guess who they think is responsible for hunting down the contractor to rectify it and why?
#Transport #TransportPlanning #LocalCouncil #LocalGovernment
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Four-way temporary traffic lights on main road into town not working, with traffic already in conflict just after 7 before it starts to build. Called the highways out of hour number. Now, guess who they think is responsible for hunting down the contractor to rectify it and why?
#Transport #TransportPlanning #LocalCouncil #LocalGovernment
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I haven’t read it yet, but FIT’s report on the Peak District “Mini Switzerland” public transport concept is now available (has been for a couple of weeks in fact!) - see https://integratedtransport.org.uk/plans-published-for-mini-switzerland-a-national-demonstrator-to-transform-rural-public-transport
#Transport #TransportPlanning #MiniSwitzerland #FoundationForIntegratedTransport
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Interesting pedestrian crossing design on Little Lonsdale Street at Sutherland Street.
It's unusual to have a pedestrian-priority crossing directly on an intersection but this is what has happened here. A raised threshold has been installed across the entire intersection with zebra linemarking, but reversed so it's perpendicular rather than parallel to the busier street (Little Lonsdale).
This creates a much larger space that is at the same level as the footpath, sending multiple visual signals to drivers. There are other design elements that do this, such as the square cutouts on the approach to the crossing.
I think it could be improved further. It looks like the road could be narrowed more (this is purely me looking at this without a design or turning radius checks). Doing this would also provide more footpath space in a place where it is frequently crowded.
It's an interesting approach to treating intersections where you want to give priority to people walking. Rather than installing separate crossings on each leg, this is another option available.
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People of Nederland or Europe in general,
Does your country publish vehicle turning path diagrams, like the example below from Australia?
I'd like to compare turning path assumptions for similar vehicles across jurisdictions.
Thank you kindly for your assistance.
https://austroads.gov.au/publications/road-design/ap-g34
#Transport #Engineering #TransportEngineering #TransportPlanning #UrbanPlanning
@BicycleDutch @LiorSteinberg @verbeeld @hembrow @GarethDennis @1000millimeter @notjustbikes
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Calling all Shakespeare fans in #transportplanning or economic #appraisal...
Tonight is Twelfth Night.
To celebrate*, I’ve hidden a phrase from that very play🎭 in my blogpost on the latest changes to #TAG. Can you spot it? Comment below if you do.
https://grahamjames.co.uk/whats-new-in-tag-for-december-2025/
* And definitely not as a contrived excuse for a blatant plug for my run-down of all the latest updates to the DfT 's Transport Analysis Guidance. Not at all.
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Good news - please tell me they’re going to be criticised over funding it and stick to their guns by saying that the fuel duty escalator will resume and pay per mile road tax join it.
Rail fares to be frozen in England next year https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwygx71g3n7o
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Wow, Track Investigation Train at Swan Hill and N12 suddenly pops up in Melb Yard!!! http://dlvr.it/TPJGFh #RailNews #TransportPlanning #TransportVictoria #VLine
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Poor “Classic Fleet” availability and no spares left in the yard to cover unscheduled maintenance! http://dlvr.it/TP84mJ #RailNews #TransportPlanning #TransportVictoria #VLine
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Good to hear on the Today programme that Road User Charging is being mooted… but it seems to have been broken via the right wing newspapers so they can have a good run to wind up resistance and prevent it from happening. “Watch this space”.
#Radio4Today #TodayProgramme #TheWarOnCars #TransportPlanning
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Good to hear on the Today programme that Road User Charging is being mooted… but it seems to have been broken via the right wing newspapers so they can have a good run to wind up resistance and prevent it from happening. “Watch this space”.
#Radio4Today #TodayProgramme #TheWarOnCars #TransportPlanning
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Good to hear on the Today programme that Road User Charging is being mooted… but it seems to have been broken via the right wing newspapers so they can have a good run to wind up resistance and prevent it from happening. “Watch this space”.
#Radio4Today #TodayProgramme #TheWarOnCars #TransportPlanning
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Good to hear on the Today programme that Road User Charging is being mooted… but it seems to have been broken via the right wing newspapers so they can have a good run to wind up resistance and prevent it from happening. “Watch this space”.
#Radio4Today #TodayProgramme #TheWarOnCars #TransportPlanning
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Good to hear on the Today programme that Road User Charging is being mooted… but it seems to have been broken via the right wing newspapers so they can have a good run to wind up resistance and prevent it from happening. “Watch this space”.
#Radio4Today #TodayProgramme #TheWarOnCars #TransportPlanning
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The paper explores several real world road networks. (Outside of this I also applied it to the centre-line rail network model).
The associated, albeit beta package, is available here PyPi https://pypi.org/project/parenx/, and more information about the paper the code used to generated it is here https://nptscot.github.io/networkmerge/
Thanks to all hte authors here but especially for @robinlovelace as, without his help and support, this would never have happened -
Happy #TCRPday!
The Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) in the US is a superb, ever-growing, practical resource for public transport planning. TCRP reports draw together the state of the art, and offer practical frameworks and solutions for tackling issues in all aspects of transit.
More on my blog:
https://grahamjames.co.uk/happy-tcrp-day-all-about-the-usas-transit-cooperative-research-program/Delighted to join my US colleagues and friends to celebrate #TCRPday today.
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Electric-powered “tram-style” mass rapid transit “using its own road lane” - I’m sure I’m not the only one saying “please let it be trolley buses!”
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New resource: An at-a-glance summary of the government’s transport objectives in England.
DfT recently updated its list of priorities – with little fanfare. This handy one-page guide sets them out, alongside the wider government objectives and the main linkages between the two levels.
Ideal for those tricky 'policy review' texts…
On my website at https://grahamjames.co.uk/transport-policy/
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I think I’m supposed to say “just wait until they hear about cars then!”
Taking it more seriously, I am doubtful that regulation of legal e-bikes is a practicable or helpful response, given the number of illegal electric motorcycles posing as e-bikes already in use.
Separate infrastructure is likely to achieve more - one of the quotes in the article is “I understand how it can make sense for pedestrians and push bikes to share those paths” but really it does not make sense: pedestrians and cycles have different performance characteristics, just as they both differ massively from motor vehicles. They should not be sharing space.E-bike injuries are a massive burden, say surgeons https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ejgrw9yepo
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An intriguing point at the intersection of #geocomputation and #transportplanning: the intricacy of three-dimensional transport networks necessitates that certain paths from point A to point B become MultiLinestrings when converted to two-dimensional formats. Advice: review any processes that assume all routes are simple linestrings! For reproducible path including (two!) loops, refer to this link: https://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/122968651/#fastest
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This is all very well, but especially in rural areas we need a denser, higher frequency bus network with longer operating hours for it to be truly valuable. We won’t get that while the network is operated as private enterprise rather than a public good, and no transport authority can genuinely afford to introduce franchising to achieve it. Pay-per-mile car driving tax might help fund a change to a system that genuinely fulfils people’s wants and needs.
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Updated: my ready-reference chart for the #AMAT cycling infrastructure categories.
I've updated the valuations to 2023 prices and values, in line with the latest #TAG #databook .
The chart helps with picking the correct DM and DS cycling infrastructure categories when running an active travel scheme through AMAT.
It also covers using these categories as proxy values for other improvements to journey quality.
Find it at https://grahamjames.co.uk/amat/
The previous version using 2010 prices and values is still there as wekk, in case you need it for an older appraisal that's still using those.
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Delighted to announce: the NPT for Scotland was Highly Commended at the Scottish Transport Awards! 🎉 Funded by Transport Scotland and delivered in collaboration with Sustrans, A/B Street and CycleStreets. Congrats to the team! #TransportPlanning #ActiveTravel
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If you’re interested in climate change and transport planning, and haven’t seen it already, be sure to check out the CIHT’s new CLIMATES report, released a couple of days ago - you can download it here: https://www.ciht.org.uk/knowledge-resource-centre/resources/policy-technical/climates/
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Spotted a press release on the DfT website saying it is great that there might be “38,000 jobs on the horizon as pilots of self-driving vehicles fast-tracked”… however there is no indication of what those jobs might actually be, or what it would mean for the 380,000 taxi and minicab drivers in the UK.
Yet again I feel like there are questions that should be answered before society embraces change for the sake of change. See also: AI, delivery robots, drones, Universal Studios… and of course if I say this too loudly at work I’ll be accused of being partisan - but those who are twice as loud in the opposite direction are not.
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Swan Hill Line fiasco Kings Birthday Weekend – June 2025 http://dlvr.it/TLGFBb #PassengerCareandComfort #RailNews #TransportPlanning #VLine
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The new May 2025 versions of the #TAG units and supporting material are now included in my "TAG at a glance" webpage.
For each unit / workbook / databook / etc, there's a summary of what's new in the current version, and a direct link to the item.
The May 2025 updates (including one bonus mini-change not previously advertised) are highlighted.
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The DfT has now published the May 2025 updates to its Transport Appraisal Guidance #TAG.
The changes include:
▶️New base year
▶️Updated appraisal parameters
▶️Lots of new and updated guidanceHere's my round-up of what's new:
https://grahamjames.co.uk/whats-new-in-tag-for-may-2025/ -
How can #ActivityBasedModels support #ActiveTravel & innovative mobility services? 🚶 🚴 🚌
Webinar of the European Association for Activity-Based Modelling #EAABM on 14 May (14:00–15:30 CET) exploring 2 challenges:
👉building #SyntheticPopulations
👉ensuring #ModelUsability2 case studies
🔹Cambridge AcBM: assessing active travel & equity impacts (Laurence Chittock)
🔹Hamburg mobiTopp: supporting MOIA’s ride-pooling operations (Gabriel Wilkes) -
Join me at the University of Leeds for my inaugural lecture celebrating my promotion to Professor of Transport Data Science! I'm excited to invite colleagues and data enthusiasts on Thursday, 8th May 2025, at 4:30 PM. Drinks reception at 4:00 PM/ A ‘Hackathon’ will precede the lecture in ITS room 1.11, with details to follow. Get tickets at https://www.ticketsource.us/whats-on/leeds/esther-simpson-building-lt-1-01/data-science-for-future-proof-transport-planning-inaugural-lecture-by-professor-robin-lovelace/2025-05-08/16:30/t-avnjvar. Excited to celebrate with you all! #DataScience #TransportPlanning #Leeds #InauguralLecture
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TAG at a Glance" on my website is now up-to-date with the Nov 2024 and forthcoming May 2025 changes to DfT's Transport Analysis Guidance (TAG).
The updated units etc are all highlighted, with a summary of what’s new in each one, and direct links to all the latest versions.
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I finished reading this a few hours ago; “Feminist City” by Leslie Kern.
It is a wide ranging book that sets out key issues around the way that both spaces and society are structured and how they relate to one another. If you’re involved in town planning or transport planning, you should read this, and try to digest and act on it. Men in particular.
https://www.librarything.com/work/book/279615265
#BooksReadIn2025 #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #UrbanPlanning #TownPlanning #TransportPlanning
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I had a letter from the DVLA today saying my car tax is now £351.75.
Almost a pound a day, before insurance, servicing, MOT etc & before moving an inch. But given the externalities of using it it is still underpriced.
Unfortunately I can’t discharge my personal/family responsibilities & work duties without the bloody thing, though I’d ditch it tomorrow if I could.
We really need to change the transport system & how society works
#CarTax #ForcedCarUse #BanCars #TransportPlanning #Transport
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I had a letter from the DVLA today saying my car tax is now £351.75.
Almost a pound a day, before insurance, servicing, MOT etc & before moving an inch. But given the externalities of using it it is still underpriced.
Unfortunately I can’t discharge my personal/family responsibilities & work duties without the bloody thing, though I’d ditch it tomorrow if I could.
We really need to change the transport system & how society works
#CarTax #ForcedCarUse #BanCars #TransportPlanning #Transport
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I had a letter from the DVLA today saying my car tax is now £351.75.
Almost a pound a day, before insurance, servicing, MOT etc & before moving an inch. But given the externalities of using it it is still underpriced.
Unfortunately I can’t discharge my personal/family responsibilities & work duties without the bloody thing, though I’d ditch it tomorrow if I could.
We really need to change the transport system & how society works
#CarTax #ForcedCarUse #BanCars #TransportPlanning #Transport
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I had a letter from the DVLA today saying my car tax is now £351.75.
Almost a pound a day, before insurance, servicing, MOT etc & before moving an inch. But given the externalities of using it it is still underpriced.
Unfortunately I can’t discharge my personal/family responsibilities & work duties without the bloody thing, though I’d ditch it tomorrow if I could.
We really need to change the transport system & how society works
#CarTax #ForcedCarUse #BanCars #TransportPlanning #Transport
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Funny how things go....
Yesterday I mentioned in my blogpost that unlike the other two parts of the DfT VfM framework, the supplementary guidance on landscape monetisation isn't relevant to most projects.
Today I needed to check back with it on a project!
Link to post if you missed it:
https://grahamjames.co.uk/dfts-new-value-for-money-framework-what-you-need-to-know/ -
Funny how things go....
Yesterday I mentioned in my blogpost that unlike the other two parts of the DfT VfM framework, the supplementary guidance on landscape monetisation isn't relevant to most projects.
Today I needed to check back with it on a project!
Link to post if you missed it:
https://grahamjames.co.uk/dfts-new-value-for-money-framework-what-you-need-to-know/ -
Funny how things go....
Yesterday I mentioned in my blogpost that unlike the other two parts of the DfT VfM framework, the supplementary guidance on landscape monetisation isn't relevant to most projects.
Today I needed to check back with it on a project!
Link to post if you missed it:
https://grahamjames.co.uk/dfts-new-value-for-money-framework-what-you-need-to-know/ -
Funny how things go....
Yesterday I mentioned in my blogpost that unlike the other two parts of the DfT VfM framework, the supplementary guidance on landscape monetisation isn't relevant to most projects.
Today I needed to check back with it on a project!
Link to post if you missed it:
https://grahamjames.co.uk/dfts-new-value-for-money-framework-what-you-need-to-know/ -
#Transport and #TransportPlanning people, follow @DfTAnswers and you should see #DfT’s answers to parliamentary questions.
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What's new in TAG?
My latest blogpost looks at the recently-announced forthcoming changes to DfT's Transport Analysis Guidance.
A new population forecast, updates to wider economic impacts, the 'new mode problem' and much more... What does it all mean?
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The Management of V/line http://dlvr.it/TFgRsF #Myki #RailNews #TrainOperations #TransportPlanning
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Interesting time at #CIHT Climates workshop today. Lots of food for thought on greening transport. More on that when I’ve done some digesting of the future gazing, if I can articulate it.
Anyway, it is #TuneswapTuesday, and my bus is running horribly late… here’s Put The Road in Order performed by #BrassMonkey
#ClimateChange #TransportPlanning
#Folk #FolkSong #Song #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad -
This photo here is exactly why you should not secure bicycle parking hoops to the ground with bolts.
It's incredibly easy for anyone with an adjustable wrench to loosen the base, lift the hoop and steal your bike. The thickness or strength of your lock doesn't matter (but you can get locks that will help a lot in this situation like the Kryptonite NY/NY Fahgettaboudit).
At work we avoid building these wherever we can. Instead we install in-ground hoops that are concreted or asphalted into the ground directly. This is a much more secure design.
#TransportPlanning #Bicycle #BicycleParking #Melbourne #Design